Cooking Quotes

“Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.”

“I don't like to cook. I can make a TV dinner taste like radio.”

“Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.”

“Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.”

“I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.”

“I wouldn't go that far. But I know my way around the kitchen. I make dinner every night.”

“Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.”

“I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.”

“Incubated. And then raised. And then beheaded. And then plucked. And then cut up. And then put on a grill. And then put on a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while. I don't have time. Scrambled!”

“I like baked potatoes. I don't have a microwave oven, and it takes forever to bake a potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes I'll just throw one in there, even if I don't want one, because by the time it's done, who knows?”

“Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.”

“There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.”

“I am my happiest self when generations in my family are getting together and I'm cooking.”

“One of the things that I do to relax at the end of the day is I read recipes.”

“If I'm cooking, I feel like I'm in control of my life.”

“I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.”

“My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.”

“This is every cook's opinion -no savory dish without an onion,but lest your kissing should be spoiledyour onions must be fully boiled.”

“Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.”

“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.”

“What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.”

“I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.”

“Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.”

“Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?”

“I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.”